David Newhardt will be coming out with a T/A coffee table book soon. All three of my cars will be in there. He shot the LS1 T/A and the LU5 engine in my blue '83 last week.

Today we did the photoshoot with my silver '83. Heres how it went.







Some of the rig jobs he did for the camera





This also means that the exterior of the car is now finally completed. What do you think? Any suggestions?

 

is it really nessesary to have all those suction cups and **** to hold a camera on?!? wooo.....man your car looks awsome though

 

Those are required when the car will be moving in the picture. It does look like a lot though lol.

 

Not a huge fan of teh early t/a's but that thing is freakin clean man! Love that color almost the smae as my old 85, i think i would've had to walk away when stuff started gettign stuck to my paint for cameras though. COngrats thats better than gettign published in a magazine imo

 

Cool! That is such and honor to have your car imoralized like that. A few of us on the boards got our cars in a bird book by Marc Cranswick. I was surprised he wanted to include mine since it is modified so much. But he had quite a few custom birds in the book. Hey be sure to let us know when the book is due out!

 

cool nice car

 

congrats, thats definatly an honour

 

heh i think she means immortalized

congrats dude, the car looks real clean.

 

yeah, i caught that too.

great stuff... some of the shots he came up with were real good... makes me want to get myself a better camera and lenses. thanks for the invite..

 

Yep that what I meant...no sleep past few days...death in the family

 

Thanks Everyone!

irocbirdbuilder: It hurt watching the tape and suction cups put on the car but he assured me it was safe. He told me they do the same thing with brand new Ferrari's.

redraif: I'll have to check out the book by Marc Cranswick. Congrats on your car being in his book. David wanted 100% bone stock looking cars in his. I even had to swap wheels and center caps from my other '83 for the photoshoot. I'll be sure to let you know when it's out.

90firebird: Thanks for taking the pictures BTW.

 

Man, I think that is great to have your car documented like that !!

Good job:hail:

Tell me about your front air dam, because it looks completely different that mine. Looks like the one thats on my brothers 91 Firebird.

Here's a shot of mine, that was taken while going through the tech line at the T/A Nats.

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...66_58_full.jpg

 

Thanks man!

Your air dam is the correct one. Firebirds should have the 3 piece air dam. I'm assuming the 2 end pieces on mine broke off or the whole thing broke off and the previous owners replaced the center piece. Car never gets hotter than 1/8th of the guage so I'm happy.

 

I got my car in the book too! The only IRON DUKE in there.

82FirebirdTA, I love the look of your bird. I wish mine could look as good. I haven't driven my bird in over a year and it is starting look bad. All you need now is an interior for that car and you'll be set.

 

thats a sweet car!!!!!!!!:hail:

 

Thanks Bill! I've always loved your car! Interior and engine are next on the list! I can't wait!

Get your bird back on the road!!!

nick418: Thanks!

 

i've been looking at these pics and just relized what i like about this car...the mirrors..the way there black with a silver car...just sweet dude...and one knwo where i can get this book?